Hi Alison, Please share what you find. I have been intending to look into this myself. I'm concerned about the initial page load time on my site. It seems pretty slow. Regards, Phil
From: Jamie Holly hovercrafter@earthlink.net To: support@drupal.org, Date: 01/03/2014 09:31 AM Subject: Re: [support] Improving performance Sent by: support-bounces@drupal.org
The high performance group on drupal.org is really good:
https://groups.drupal.org/high-performance
The most common recipe is APC for opcode caching, memcache for object caching and Drupal's database to cache the form table.
APC also offers object/user caching, but you do have to spend sometime getting it tuned right so the memory does fragment. In one high performance site I manage I use the same recipe as above, but I use APC to handle page caching.
Of course all this varies greatly by site. Some sites are mostly anonymous users, meaning page caching is the key, while others have a heavy logged-in user base, so object caching becomes the big factor.
Also depending on how the site is built, there's other cache modules out there that really help, like views cache, authcache and panels cache.
Jamie Holly http://hollyit.net
On 1/3/2014 5:08 AM, Alison wrote:
Hi Guys and Girls,
can anyone recommend a good general discussion site or place where I can
read about Drupal caching. Currently running Memcache and APC - the PHP accelerator, but not sure whether there would be anything to gain by implementing Drupals caching as well. Wouldn't mind finding some way of measuring the effects of the various performance enhancements. Are there any downsides to Memcache and APC?
Hugs
Alison
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